Cooking Articles

You Too Can Make Sushi!

If there is one food that always seems better suited for eating out than cooking ourselves it has to be sushi. All it takes is a flip through a restaurant guide for nearly any American city or a stroll...

All For One

Recently I went out to dinner with my family. As is our usual custom, we ended up sharing dessert after a delicious meal at a local brasserie. We sat around the table together taking bites of our small...

Vegetarian Slow Cooking

This week I will be dedicating my column to vegetarian slow cooking. As I write this, I have just returned from visiting my brother and sister-in-law in the hospital with their new baby girl, Ella. She...

You Say Tomato, I Say To'mater

Some of my fondest memories of time spent with my father during my childhood include the hours we spent outside planting and tending our substantial vegetable garden. There is nothing quite so satisfying...

Lavender: From Soap to Supper

Lavender is for bubble bath. Roses are for a vase. Hibiscus is for graphic prints on Hawaiian shirts. Flowers are many things, but not for consumption. Or at least, that is what I used to think. I...

The Ultimate All-American Creation: the Chocolate Chip Cookie

Chocolate chip cookies are as American a treat as you can bake. Most likely you have tasted hundreds of them over the years. But some of our nation's most heralded figures, like George Washington, Abraham...

Patio Produce: Potatoes

Maybe it has something to do with Mr. Potato Head being my favorite toy when I was growing up; but I just love potatoes. The brief time I spent on very low or no carbohydrate diets was pure hell. I missed...

Sweeten Spring's Leafy Greens

Salads seem to be on every menu and plate today. And with the advent of the pre-cut, pre-washed and pre-bagged greens in every grocery store, it seems that salad can be the last minute afterthought accompaniment...

Let's Spin--Some Salad, That Is

This may surprise you, but I’m not a gadget person. Especially not a kitchen gadget person. Oh, I have a food processor, a blender—and you already know how we love that toaster oven—but I find that...

Today's Sauce, Tomorrow's Dinner Party

As anyone who has every come over to eat at my house can attest, I hate wasting food. Therefore even when I am entertaining, it is not unusual for me to serve a dish made at least in part with something-...

Of Meat and Men

In a column on all things bachelor, one must address the man/meat connection. There's so much to say here. By plumbing this relation between man and meat, perhaps we can happen upon why male vegetarians...

Oh, Honey!

Did you eat today? Thank a honey bee. The American Beekeeping Federation notes that every third bite of food in our diet is dependent upon a honey bee to pollinate plant flowers. Zooming around at a wing...

On the Barbie

This is a friendly little reminder that the summer is back and it’s the season to kick back, enjoy the weather and friends, and have some fun as worklife for many of us slows down until September again. Why...

Dad's Specials

Father’s Day is coming up, so now is the time to start thinking about doing something special for your favorite father figure. Many of my favorite food memories are tied to my father. He is always...

Yes, Man Can Live On Taco Alone

As my brother and I sat down earlier this week to eat our third and fourth tacos of the day, what dawned on me was not that there was anything wrong with this eating pattern but rather that it was so natural...

The Sandwich Man

Father’s Day is just about here and it’s time to honor our favorite dads in the world. Each year I find myself in a quandary over what to get my husband (the world’s greatest dad). As a kid I always...